links for 2008-05-24

I was interviewed last week for an article on BusinessWeek.com, Facebook’s New Facelift. If you didn’t already know, Facebook is in the final stages of a redesign process. BW asked a few designers for their views. I had a few thoughts: First, Facebook

School staff should trawl social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo to identify whether their pupils are gang members, according to advice in a government report. Children, even those from primary schools, are being sucked into violent gangs, says

Facebook is giving users plenty of time to adjust to an upcoming redesign. The company unveiled plans yesterday for a new tab-based design yesterday, which is essentially a way of keeping profile pages “simpler” and “cleaner” — or less MySpaceyish

When you’re one of the earliest adopters of a new technology, or one of the first companies into a new space, you tend to be very bullish on its future. That energy was very much in evidence Thursday at InterPlay, the first-ever conference solely devoted